Contributed by Tiny_Hats. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM (EDT)

Swedish promoter Stockholm Straight Edge has kicked Germany's Fallbrawl from the bill of the upcoming Firestorm Fest. The band was dropped due to a controversial new music video which saw the band visit a strip club. The promoter explained the decision:

The music video for their song "Can You Dig It?" explicitly show that they have an opposite view on feminism and women's rights than us. We don't want to support such behavior in our scene and therefore we had to take action. We understand that some of you wanted to see FALLBRAWL, therefore we are truly sorry for the inconvenience.

The video itself as already been removed from Vimeo and YouTube but can still be found on Daily Motion. You can judge for yourself here. It probably goes without saying that the video is NSFW.

But what if the only way you can feel good about yourself is to get boobie slapped by a coked out Russian stripper? I'm sorry, Misanthropee, this is who I am. You can't ask a bird not to fly. You can't ask a fish not to swim. You can't ask a tiger not to turn back into a Chinese dude at midnight!

Good lord the actual song is awful so I guess there's no such thing as a good career move for them. I paused Devo's "Beautiful World" for it; the second I saw letterman jackets and heard the first chugga chugga chord the video was off and it was back to "New Traditionalists."

Alright, I've watched it and all I can think is "This was really pulled from youtube and vimeo?" This is all sorts of tame, nothing that would've been out of place in a Motley Crue video from the 80s.

But I'd really question why the promoter would put this band on in the first place. Is this all it takes to get onto a festival bill these days? Chugga chugga riffs, a slick video, and putting the "hardcore" label on yourself? Did the promoter just need warm bodies to fill up the side stage?

And holy fuck, those lyrics would make Madball say "That's some cliche shit, yo."

Despite being german, I never heard of this band. I don't care about shooting a music video in a strip club, but the band deserves to be kicked for making shitty, generic whateveryoucallthatnewscene hardcore. Also, the way women are shown in that video is neither appropriate nor entertaining or somehow ironic, so congrats to the promoter.

fun fact: dude from trapped under ice broke one of the guys' jaw after he jumped him or something at a show. Ignited a lengthy discussion on violence at hc shows in Germany. Why is this even on here? Any kind of publicity for these idiots drags hc's already damaged name deeper into the dirt.

How's it uneducated? I've toured Europe several times with an array of different bands, booked by several different companies/promoters. I'm still close with people over there. I've seen it first hand.

Most of them aren't laughing, they're doing coke in the bathroom and going home and getting beaten by their boyfriends because they were raped by their fathers at age 12 and are too mentally unstable to hold a steady job. My biggest problem with strip clubs isn't objectification, it's the fact that 95 percent of the strippers are pitiable broken human beings, and that guys are actually INTO that -- the stench of sadness, desperation and vulnerability is as much of an attraction as the tits. Fucking disgusting.

I used to feel the same way you do. My girlfriend was a dancer for a couple weeks before we started dating and she took me to one to address the stereotypes I had about strollers. Turned out there were as many putting themselves through college as there were supporting their drug habits. My girl for example did it just to see what it was like.

I know you live in Florida so this shocks me. You must have gone to some fancy-pants clubs or something. I do know from unfortunate and extensive experience however that the stereotype is very real however -- plus women who were raped by their fathers go to college too, you know. That doesn't mean they're not fucked in the head.

Also I hate to bring this up, but you HAVE posted on here a lot about how much of an emotionally unstable nutbar your girlfriend is...I'm not quite sure how that example is supposed to buck the stereotype...

Maaan, It's 2012. People are more open about their sexuality and money hasn't gotten any easier to come by. I think the monolith that all strippers are sexually abused drug addicts is outdated at best. In college, my best friend tried stripping and I knew a callgirl through a mutual friend. Neither one of them were drug addicts and to the best of my knowledge they were never sexually abused as children. The only other stripper I've ever met was straight-edge (although she did seem like a bit of a loose cannon). Besides, even if a stripper is doing blow to cover up her daddy issues, does that make her less of a human being? The idea that a woman who takes her clothes off for a living is somehow below everyone else, especially if they're doing it because they've been sexually abused, is just as sexist and fucked up as the dudes on perverts row who get off to that shit. I'm not saying that you specifically believe strippers are low people, but that seems to be where a lot of this anti-stripper bias comes from.

Nowhere was it said that strippers are "lesser human beings" because of their issues and those women's issues aren't what makes strip clubs sexist. It's the way club owners prey on that, the power dynamic, and the men who get off on it, that's all fairly sexist. I don't think that the basic act of stripping or displays of sexuality (for fun or profit) in general are necessarily sexist (context is important), but the nature of the strip club business is, more often than not, fairly predatory and exploitative and tends to promote a very negative image of women. It's similar to porn in that porn isn't, by a textbook definition, sexist, but if you walked into a porn shop and grabbed a video at random, it's probable that it portrays women in a negative, derogatory, objectifying way, and is marketed in such a way as to play to a male mindset that views women as objects for male sexual satisfaction. Porn doesn't need to be sex negative and degrading, but most of it certainly is. Strip clubs are similar.

Of course, not all women who've stripped conform to the victim stereotype. Some are just single mothers, some are trying to pay their way through college, etc. But the general portrayal of women and sexuality in a strip club is usually quite sexist and debasing.

Fair enough. I'm not exactly well-versed in what goes on behind the scenes at strip clubs, but I'll concede that there are probably more than a few exploitative club owners and the like. The general tone of your first post gave me a bit of an impression that you felt some disdain towards strippers, but I figured you were probably smarter than that (hence the disclaimer). However, I still think there are a lot of people who look down on strippers as a willing accessory to rape culture without realizing they're actual human beings and not just "sluts with drug problems." Same goes for patrons of strip clubs (they have feelings too, ya know). Usually, that kind of small mindedness is accompanied by reactionary behavior-- for example, kicking a band off a fest because they filmed a video at a strip club.

It makes no sense. Set aside the shitty fest/band for a second and you've got a bunch of guys discriminating against another bunch of guys over women's rights...?

Women have the right to be strippers, men have the right to go to strip clubs and hardcore bands have to right to film their shitty video where ever they choose.

Matt from Latterman / RVIVR is the same, in promoting the rights of women he pushes the rights of men to side. We are all equal, why should I, as a man, stand at the back so the small lady can stand at the front? Why can't we stand together?

yeah, because all women on earth have plain, vanilla sexual tastes. Cus they're women and the thought that some women out there might get off on the same weird shit that some dudes do is scary and terrifying.

Also, how do you justify male strip clubs? Lots of women go to those places, I'd imagine.

:) You seem to have a pretty big can of worms and a very well stocked pond of fish to grab at your hook so I'm going to find something more practicul to do with my time. Like get a lap dance from a Eastern European midget amputee base head hopefully.

Strip Clubs in Sweden(where I live) and the parts of Europe I've seen are 9 times out of 10 run by criminals and the so called "happy girls" working there don't really go home rich every night. The clubs are dirty and downright disgusting even to look at from the outside just of because whats really going on inside. the girls working there most times doesn't even have any choice to have any other job as they are there illegally in the first place. The Clubs are almost always a hub for prostitution as well which I don't find equal at all.

Yes, which is an excuse strip clubs use. The dancing is incidental. If there weren't obscenity laws it would just be sex shows. Which could be art. Who cares. I'm not suggesting strip clubs should be banned, I'm suggesting their patrons should be ridiculed and intimidated and ostracized by private citizens. Vigilantism, not legislation.

dude, every one of your comments has involved one or more sweeping generalizations that don't apply to more than a small percentage of the "strip club going" of the population. You have a very single-minded view of the world, which is very dangerous. You know what happens when someone with a single minded view of the world takes to vigilantism?

This video is kind of perfect for a macho super-tough-guy chugga-chugga band: Strippers with fake boobs dancing to the music, the band sitting next to the stage looking up at the girls on the stripper-pole, the lingering shots on the singers naked, tattoo-covered chest... There's traditional objectification of women and tough-guy hardcore homoeroticism, all in 1 video!

i swear that this one time, i witnessed this cheaply made music video for some either metal/hardcore band that had a fat singer in a black hoodie and all the video showed was him beating his wife/girlfriend. it was terrible and one of the worst things i've ever seen. the band was all tough guy posin' and chuggin' along i think. it was awful. i hate that crap. i came from a home full of domestic violence...

The quality is hilariously bad. I don't know if I'd say that about the actual content of the song or video. I believe they tried to pass it off as a joke, shock humour, but nothing about it seemed at all funny. Like, it wasn't even "straight to the moon" or cartoony violence, or some kind of obvious commentary on domestic abuse or the kinds of people who perpetrate it. The lyrics were awful, but if no one told me it was supposed to be a joke, there was nothing about them that would give it away. If it was a joke, I got the impression it was "haha only serious".

SSE posted this as Fallbrawl has made a statement, see below for both. The SSE one first as it clarifies a one point that they are trying to make of the Fallbrawl statement:

Stockholm Straight Edge:
Fallbrawl replied to our statement regarding the cancellation of their appearance at FIRESTORM FEST 2012 (Full line-up announced). We think everyone should read it for the sake of fairness. We do want to point out a few things (even though we don't really feel they are of importance to the discussion). The building FALLBRAWL think is a church is actually the City Hall of Stockholm (http://international.stockholm.se/Tourism-and-history/The-Famous -City-Hall/). The reason why everything is burning is simply because the fest is on the 30th of April which is Walpurgis Night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night#Sweden) where it's tradition to light bonfires.

Fallbrawl:
Everybody should know that you cannot get any conclusion of how we treat women and how we think about their rights cause of our video. We had a really good
time at the shooting and the girls ,too. We wanted to do something new in this scene without giving a
fuck about any SCENERULES and
the outcome is musicvideo with sexy girls. Not more not less. In the Year 2012 everybody should know that women and men are equal. But it shows how intollerant some people are. Everybody loves to see beautiful people of the other gender ( or the same) cause its in our nature. We even think that this behaviour makes it even more hard for women who outlive what they like to fit in society. Everybody should do what she/he feels like and if you would rate this video it would be FSk 16 or even below cause you cannot see anything there.

TREAT YOUR GIRLS GOOD GUYS CAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL WE HAVE ON EARTH!

We even ask ourselves if the promoters are in the right position to offend us cause they have a burning church on their flyer where we got
kicked from. This puts down a whole religion and reminds of warscenarios. Is this how to treat people who are not the same?

We dont want to point with the finger on someone but we didn't started it.

"The music video for their song "Can You Dig It?" explicitly show that they have an opposite view on feminism and women's rights than us."

Not to be a pedantic bastard, but "they have the opposite view on feminism and women's rights than us" is a VERY difficult claim to back up. What exactly is the opposite view in this instance? They have a different view, certainly, but the notion that this constitutes an opposite view is absurd.

If I was the promoter, I probably wouldn't want that band playing my show either, but it's possible to express disdain and disgust about the actions of a group without making claims about their position which are not backed up by evidence.

Got all of a minute into this video before I had to turn it off. I can just about stomach tough guy bullshit for journalistic purposes, but I'll be fucked if I'm gonna sit and watch three minutes of gyrating hind-quarters.

Also, Raging Speedhorn did this a decade ago, for the video to The Gush. The stripper thing was tacky and objectifying then, too, but at least the song was good.

What's with all the stomping on the camera? It never did anything wrong to you. It's just a harmless piece of equipment. In fact, it's making you the star of this moving picture feature right now. Leave it alone!